 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 2005 - Broj stranica: 1004
...attacking their own enemies. Second, let's consider the operational realities. The Strategy declares that "We must adapt the concept of imminent threat to the...capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries." But that requires a sophisticated understanding of what those capabilities and objectives actually... | |
 | Seyom Brown - 2004 - Broj stranica: 220
...statelessness. The overlap between states that sponsor terror and those that pursue WMD compels us to action. For centuries, international law recognized that nations...armies, navies, and air forces preparing to attack. ons of mass destruction—weapons that can be easily concealed, delivered covertly, and used without... | |
 | Ivo H. Daalder, James M. Lindsay - 2003 - Broj stranica: 286
...jurists often conditioned the legitimacy of preemption on the existence of an imminent threat — most often a visible mobilization of armies, navies, and...do not seek to attack us using conventional means." Of course, force would not have to be used "in all cases to preempt emerging threats, nor should nations... | |
 | Michael Mann - 2003 - Broj stranica: 300
...exercise our right of selfdefense by acting preemptively . . . our best defense is a good offense. . . .We must adapt the concept of imminent threat to the...capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries. . . . To forestall or prevent hostile acts by our adversaries, the United States will, if necessary,... | |
 | Raymond W. Copson - 2003 - Broj stranica: 106
...Administration, in particular, argued in a national security strategy document released in 2002 that "we must adapt the concept of imminent threat to the capabilities and objectives of today's ... rogue states and terrorists" by expanding the parameters of preemptive self-defense to include... | |
 | Oliver O'Donovan - 2003 - Broj stranica: 154
...here we need not resist in principle the proposal of the US National Security Strategy document to 'adapt the concept of imminent threat to the capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries'. That need only mean that the meaning of'imminent' is context-dependent and content-dependent, which... | |
 | Armin Von Bogdandy, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Christiane E. Philipp - 2004 - Broj stranica: 479
...doctrine of pre-emption" used to justify the United States position regarding its invasion of Iraq: "For centuries, international law recognized that...armies, navies, and air forces preparing to attack." 46 Taft and Buchwald argue that pre-emptive self-defence, in and of itself, cannot be considered legal... | |
 | David Malone - 2004 - Broj stranica: 764
...jurists often conditioned the legitimacy of preemption on the existence of an imminent threat — most often a visible mobilization of armies, navies, and...threat to the capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries.23 This passage's reference to "imminent threat" harks back to a classic exposition of... | |
 | Jason D. Ellis, Geoffrey D. Kiefer - 2004 - Broj stranica: 338
...hundreds of thousands of lives."54 In the rubric of the Bush administration's national-security strategy, "we must adapt the concept of imminent threat to the...capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries," which rely on "acts of terror and, potentially, the use of weapons of mass destruction."55 WMD-related... | |
 | Niels M. Blokker, N. J. Schrijver - 2011 - Broj stranica: 548
...in this context that the action in Afghanistan or Iraq should be considered." As it is stated there 'we must adapt the concept of imminent threat to the...capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries. The United States has long maintained the option 12. Nicaragua case, para. 193. 73. Nicaragua case,... | |
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... recognized that nations need not suffer an attack before they can lawfully take action to defend themselves against forces that present an imminent danger of attack. 
